The typical Hegelian dialectic is that there are two extreme positions, and people have to thrash it out between each other, so that the truth, which is assumed to be somewhere in the middle will emerge. The Hegelian dialectic is total BS.

Truth is objective, not subjective. We have a moral obligation to seek the truth no matter how much it hurts our ego.

When engaged in a honest debate, a person must not try to win; he must rather try to seek the truth. In a honest debate, at the end, the truth wins. In a Hegelian dialectic, one of the debators win.

The truth is that monogamous marital unions are the bedrock of civilizations. That is not an extreme position; that is a simple truth.

"Life begins at abiogenesis" - That's a red herring, we're not talking about the origin of the earliest forms of life.

" 'life' is not the threshold we are looking for in the abortion debate." - This sort of disingenuous rationalization to soothe your ego should be avoided in seeking the truth.

I'm not going to argue anymore because you're not engaging in a debate; you're engaging in a Hegelian dialectic.

Consciousness makes you human. Not your beating heart. Not the shape of your hands. Not the functions of your body. Not that your body is alive. Your death as a human being occurs with the cessation of your higher brain functions and the irreversible end of your consciousness: 'brain death'. Conversely, your life as a human being begins with the commencement of your brain functions and the starting of your consciousness: 'brain life'.

Science has established that the structures of the brain that are required for "fetal awareness of noxious stimuli" do not begin forming until 23 to 30 weeks. It is living human tissue, but without consciousness and a fully-formed nervous system, removing a fetal sack is no more concerning than removing an appendix. (Or it's actually less concerning, since the body is incapable of producing another appendix.) It's incorrect to think of a fetus as 'a baby who just hasn’t been born yet'. It's correct to think of a fetus as a part of the body that will become a baby, if the body is allowed to continue the process.

Scientific studies of fetal consciousness, and statistics which show 98% of abortions occur in the first trimester, prove that in reality there is virtually no ethical dilemma associated with having an abortion. At least, no more than is involved with having a tooth pulled.

Life is not the threshold. Human life is the threshold and that begins with consciousness, not conception.